Today, Tasha and I ventured to Peoria to do some shopping. I found a cable amplifier to suit my needs to continue pushing an HD signal and still provide all of the necessary juice to my 3 tuner cards in my Myth. The guy that helped me at Radio Shack also hooked me up with […]

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Earlier in the week, I decided that I would start my HAL-9000 case modification in such a way that I would do functional things first. My intent is to begin this project with a purpose, and hopefully that will drive me to actually finish it to completion. So the acquiring of components began tonight. I […]

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My birthday has come and gone. It was a pretty fun day! I basically vegged out in front of the TV during my half-day off, and proceeded to my parents house for a fantastic spaghetti dinner. After clowning around with my brother-in-law and watching some TV, I opened my presents and ate some of my […]

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I think this article is onto something. This is the whole basis on which leading IT companies thrive. New ideas == new business opportunities. You don’t get new results by doing the same old thing brainlessly as time marches forward. You’ve gotta sit and contemplate new technology, new ideas, and new ways to get work […]

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Well… maybe not 111th. But it is my 26th! It is shaping up for a pretty mellow day… all of my meetings at work got cancelled, so I’m taking a half-day off in the afternoon to sit on my can and grow older by the minute! I’m having dinner at my parents house tonight, and […]

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Tonight was my pre-birthday workout, which would’ve gone undetected if not for the big mouth of a certain coworker Nidan of mine. McCabe got after me for calling the offending person a sonnovabitch, but I stand by my assertion. Anyway, the workout was great. The first class consisted of a boatload of basics. I got […]

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I saw this article on CNN tonight about workplace burnout… I know I’m guilty of more than a few of these symptoms. Anyone else see anything familiar here? Back when I was on PartStore and the first half of my time in EM I couldn’t wait to get to work, I really was happy to […]

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I was reading up on case modding and I came across a tutorial for case lighting. In my college days, my buddy Mike and I had installed a blue cold cathode light bar inside my case hooked up to a toggle switch. Ever since I put my new power supply in, my system would mess […]

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Tonight it was just us Nidans. After some deliberation, we decided to split into groups and focus on one advanced stance apiece. and I took Sochin-dachi, McCabe took kiba-dachi, and Oedewaldt took Hangetsu-dachi. I think everyone got a good class, I know I was sweating by the end. We took the key elements of Sochin-dachi […]

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Doing some surfing around last night, I found this site that has recreated some signage from 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’m probably going to incorporate this in my case modification, however I don’t know anything about making decals or printing on an acryllic surface. I’m posting this in hopes that will chime in with some […]

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